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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I usually will call out loudly to someone throwing trash on the floor and let them know they dropped something. With the exception of one dude, everyone immediately picks it up out of embarrassment and throws it away. The one dude, in reference, looked at it and said, "That's not mine", to which I said I saw him throw it and pointed to the nearest trash can and said he needed to pick it up and throw it there, he eventually did and we both moved on with our lives, otherwise I would have been forced to use the "Your mommy isn't here to clean up after you" card.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My go to is "my kids have to live here when you're dead...."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

"... and that's gonna be sooner than you think."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

My favorite are dog owners that do pick up after their dogs but then fling the bag into the trees or bushes along the trail.

Yes that dog doo is not preserved for future generations. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We have a beautiful small Mediterranean Pine forest near my home. Filled to the brim with small black plastic bags filled with dog poop. I think I even took pictures of it once. Enjoy nature!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like a planted forest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It is! I think it was planted in the 1950s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Never in my life did I expect to see a forest of all things enter the uncanny valley.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah like it would've been better to leave the doo there, now you've littered shit AND a bag.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can someone, anyone, please explain why someone would do this?

Not picking it up in the first place, though wrong, at least makes sense. But this is just crazy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess they pick it up only if someone is nearby. As soon as noone sees it they throw it anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Ohh thanks! That would make perfect sense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lots of the bags are bio-degradable, so they will eventually, in some unit of months or years, break down.

Of course, its the same issue as chucking a banana peel. It fucks with the local environment and will take a long time to be "gone" if you just throw it into a forest and walk away. Enough people do that, and eventually you have a trail covered in shit and bananas.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's sad how this is something special. It shouldn't be. It should be completely normal to not fucking litter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sometimes I feel pretty lucky to have grown up in Vermont. Because this is the norm, hell we even have a state holiday where we all go out and pick up trash that Flatlanders leave. And then I remember oh wait we are also the state that's been destroying our forests and farm land for the sake of building suburban homes for litter bugs that don't respect the culture that was already here.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

one thing i cant stand are the people that bag up their dog shit, and then leave it on a trail. immediate mood ruiner when im trying to enjoy the wonders of our planet... and i see a plastic bag of dog shit. like, you're doing more harm than good and youre probably aware of that very fact. these people are the human equivalent of dog shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Shit Trees. Dunno if it's common in the rest of the world but a lot of Brit dog owners tie them to tree and buch branches. Then in winter you have Shit Trees & Turd Bushes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I also agree with your first sentence, as in, the owners should indeed shit trees.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I once did this because i knew i was going to walk past that spot again and didnt want to carry it the whole time. no one was on that trail that day. and i brought it back out one the return a few hours later. (there were no trash cans out there.) Perhaps something similar was going on with you? Or am I a bad guy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I wonder how many people have the same idea as you but then just forget when they walk back. On top of this, they never remember that they forgot so they have a guilty free conscious and do again.

If you're confident you always pick it back up 100% of the time then great! But I wouldn't do it because I'm dumb and would forget like 10% of the time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I hate those people. I only do it with my own shit like a decent member of society

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I put trash in my pockets because its in its natural habitat

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sounds aggressive, how would you fit me in your pockets?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I carry plastic retail bags when hiking and kayaking.

If you flatten them out, fold them over a few times, roll them tight and wrap with a rubber band, you get a really tiny, portable bag.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do that. This post makes me feel depressed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its okay, because one day the weight of society will unexpectedly crush you without warning. So no suffering whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Such a relief! :P

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Literally the entire population of Japan 😂

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lookin at you, smokers who throw their butts out the car window. Put those in your pocket!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I kept a 1/4 filled water bottle in my car for butts. The reason I started this is because an old mad shouted at me at the lights.

I accidentally consumed that water once. Shortly afterwards I quit smoking.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Back when there were film canisters, I would use those. Then I smartened the fuck up and quit smoking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I've always put rubbish in my pocket and kept it until I can find a bin after seeing a Sesame street segment about it as a young kid.

But when I smoked I did sometimes drop my butts on the ground. Normally I would keep hold of them if I was near a public bin as most of them have ashtrays in the top I could dispose of them in.

Coincidentally I've noticed that l, at least locally to me, the council have replaced those bins with ones with no ashtrays which has definitely increased the number of butts on the ground. Wonder if having them is seen as encouraging smoking.

But sometimes if I wasn't near a public bin I'd drop my cig, stub it out and leave it on the ground. I used to smoke hand rolled cigarettes with no filter, just tobacco and paper. I justified it to myself saying it would biodegrade but it still can't have been good for the environment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As a truck driver, I can't help but look at the picture and think... "of course it's US Express in that situation"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Also swift saw a company had a worse accident rate and was like hold my beer I'm gonna buy em!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Is that because their trucks are just so nice to hold up that you like to nip out for a good stretch, or....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's not a us xpress truck tho. That's not how they do their truck numbers

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

That's also people who "recycle" to "save the planet" while big oil is fucking it up 1000 time more than us little fucks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

My wife gets mad at me sometimes because I put my cigarette butts in my pockets until I can find a garbage all the time and end up smelling like cigarettes

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You probably smell like cigarettes because of the smoking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Big if true!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is true, but holding onto the butts makes it significantly worse.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I visited Japan like 15 years ago, your not alone over there. Everyone does that and has little boxes to store them in. This goes for all trash they make, they don't have trash cans in public since someone abused them once to bomb a train area. I loved it over there... so much care and respect for everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could you use the cigarette box? That's what I used to do. Just stick the butt in one of the empty spots/the lid.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Adds a little extra flavor to the rest of the cigarettes too....

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A smart city puts trash cans every hundred feet or so.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've always believed the biggest cause of littering was lack of proper receptacles.

I was proven wrong every year at the county fair.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Looking at Japan and Vermont it really seems like solution to the litter problem is making a culture of politeness. We really need some physiatrists to study what makes a society polite. Like what makes groups of people become polite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tag yourself! I'm a rear wheel (getting crushed by the weight of social responsibility)!

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